Nokia 6610i Is The 6610i Lost & Forgotten?

[Gerry290]

I bought must be 5 years back in Dublin, actually it came as a free upgrade for me from O2 due to big mobile bills the NOKIA 6610i

I seem to remember it was one of the better models as per normal phone use then, & I remember thinking the Camera on it was a bunch of BS, as I am not into gadgets (just sound mobile call quality only).

Anyway, no matter what today I try to do with a mobile for example Fring.com has all mobiles under the sun except for the Nokia 6610i

Any upgrades & downloads I go to find... oh can have for any Nokia...except 6610i !!!

I do not want buy a new mobile, however I am curious? has the 6610i being lost & forgotten by all? or what is the insider info on this?

I do see 6610 natigator mentioned here and there and 6610, but when I try to say download someting, I tried to use 6610, but no, not work and when I contact support regardless of what company or software I tried to download, same answer... not support for 6610i !!!!

Any insights please?

[lomatopo]

Sorry, what are your specific issues or questions?

Is your phone broken, and requiring repair?

Are you looking to buy another 6610i?

[Cuban]

Go into Tukcom (big red building) on South Pattaya Road - the mobile phone floor has many second hand units for sale - I would expect that they are able to source one for you.

[dave_boo]

I bought must be 5 years back in Dublin, actually it came as a free upgrade for me from O2 due to big mobile bills the NOKIA 6610i

I seem to remember it was one of the better models as per normal phone use then, & I remember thinking the Camera on it was a bunch of BS, as I am not into gadgets (just sound mobile call quality only).

Anyway, no matter what today I try to do with a mobile for example Fring.com has all mobiles under the sun except for the Nokia 6610i

Any upgrades & downloads I go to find... oh can have for any Nokia...except 6610i !!!

I do not want buy a new mobile, however I am curious? has the 6610i being lost & forgotten by all? or what is the insider info on this?

I do see 6610 natigator mentioned here and there and 6610, but when I try to say download someting, I tried to use 6610, but no, not work and when I contact support regardless of what company or software I tried to download, same answer... not support for 6610i !!!!

Any insights please?

I'd assume the reason that you can't download and install programs is due to the fact that the 6610i seems to run the Series 40 operating system. It wasn't a bad one, but it doesn't offer true multi-tasking and doesn't even have an API that the externally installable programs can use. In fact, with the exception of simple Java programs you're unable to install much of anything. If you're a Nokia-phile, I would recommend making sure your next phone is a Series 60 model before buying it.

[Thanh-BKK]

Hi

Yeah, for a 6610i you won't find anything these days...... the shops won't have the firmware upgrades anymore as this model is off the market since long, gone and, indeed, forgotten.

The 6610i was one of Nokia's prime example for how they dupe people - a single platform generated a multitude of phones (i'm talking hardware here), the 7250 being Nokia's first s40 cam-phone, only to be succeeded a few months (!) later by the 7250i with IDENTICAL hardware and even identical looks (same phone exactly) yet better features - and no firmware crossflashing possible due to software restrictions!

And very little later that exact same firmware showed up again in a slightly redesigned phone which again shared the same hardware except for the keypad layout, which was taken from the 6610 - voila, you had the budget phone 6610i, a bastard of cheap charly 6610 and high-end 7250i (which was a 30k Baht phone then!)

Having owned a 6610 at the time and my boyfriend a 7250 weeks before the "i" came out (at roughly the same price new as the 7250), i know the feeling of being duped. Then Nokia Thailand's inability to bring on the DKU-5 special data cable required to transfer data to these - no fakes available either, an international problem really which led to me making a website with free wallpaper service for users (people could mail me their photo which i then resized, uploaded to the web and sent them a WAP link so they could get it on their phones which required those non-available cables).

Back then the only things you could download to these was ringtones with 4-channel polyphony, pictures, and small java applications/games, restricted to 64 kB max. size. Not much of this stuff is still around - phones in the 128x128 pixels screen class are lowest-end these days and often don't even have GPRS/WAP to get things downloaded. If you manage to find the matching cable (DKU-5 has, like the phones, disappeared from the market as newer phones need newer cables like the DKU-2 which is simpler, the DKU-5 has a built-in dongle which made it cost 3.000 Baht when it was available) you will also need software to the likes of "Oxygen Phone Manager" which serves the s40 models quite well but isn't freeware.

Then be aware of the memory restrictions - the ordinary 6610 had a whopping 600 kB available, the 7250(i) a huge (then!) 5 MB, i believe the 6610i also sports 5 MB.

So yeah, if you want these little java games and have the cable and Oxygen, let me know and i'll send you some - i've got a ton of them from back then.

Best regards.....

THanh

[Gerry290]

"Yeah, for a 6610i you won't find anything these days"

That was my question as post asked me to clarify, & Its answer in same comment! LOL!

So keep it for basic phone calls & when it starts to die, bye bye 6610i

I think its a bit of a con job looking back, I was running over €1000 a month in o2 bills in Ireland, o2 give me this metallic silver 6610i (looked great back then!!! lol!) but in reality there was no future for the phone. Of course o1 would have known that, I did not.

I started to wonder when several times I contact over 2007 fring.com saying why Fring for every other model Nokia except for 6610i ...

[jeffer]

I think its a bit of a con job looking back, I was running over €1000 a month in o2 bills in Ireland, o2 give me this metallic silver 6610i (looked great back then!!! lol!) but in reality there was no future for the phone. Of course o1 would have known that, I did not.

That would apply to most 5? year old phones anyway. It was a decent phone in it's day but it's like saying a 5 year old computer is a con because it's motherboard can't run a current dual core CPU and uses SDRAM memory which isn't upgradeable with cheap as chips DDR2 memory. Five years is a long time in technology.